Improvement in playing-cards



` N. RICHARDSON.- Playing-Cards.A

Patented Oct-.16, 1874.

l/l//TNESSES /NVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OEE CE.,

IVORY N. RICHARDSON, OF REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS. I7) 7 5 |MPuoi/EMEN'I"l1N PLAYING-CARDS. I, )l v?) Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 155,752, dated October 6, 1874; application filed August 8, 1874. 0

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IvonY N.v RICHARDSON, of Revere, in the county ofSui'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Playin g-Gards,of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to improvements in playing-cards, on some ofwhich are displayed certain emblemsknownas hearts, spades,7

. clubs, and diamonds, while on others are displayed certain heads knownas king-s, queens/7 and jaoksf together with such emblems; and theinvention consists in a distinguishing or indicatingcolor for each suitof cards, such as black for spades, red for hearts, green for clubs, andyellow for diamonds, together with figures, numerals, or otherindicators, placed atthe edge or border of the card, which numeral orindicator shall show the size or value of the card, whereby the player,as soon as his eye catches such numeral or indicator upon any card,will, bythe color and indicator, at once know of which suit itconstitutes a part, and what is its size A or value, Without, asheretofore, discerning the configuration of the emblems it bears, or thenumber thereof. The invention also consists in round playing cards, eachsuit of which is thus characteristically colored, and has displayed uponthe edge or borders of thek cards gures or numerals indicating the sizeor value thereof. y i

Figure 1 represents the three of clubs, with indicating-numerals aroundthe border or edge. Fig. 2 represents the jack of hearts,77 arrangedwith a heart in the center, and with the heads and hearts around theborder of the card. Fig. 3 represents the king of diamonds, the diamondbeing shown in the oenter, and the heads' radially around the card.

Although `preferring a round card, yet I propose to make them in anydesired form, nor do I limit myself to any prescribed color for eithersuit of card, so that each suit ofthe pack be of a different color; yetI prefer the colors as above described.

The ground of the cards may be white, with the emblems and numerals, orthe faces and emblems, in colors, or the ground of the several suits maybe of their characteristic colors with the emblems and numerals, oremblems and faces, shown in white. The faces may be of any desiredcolors or shades, while the accompanying emblems are of theindicating-color. Both the emblems and the border numerals may beemployed, as shown in Fig. 3, or the emblems alone, or the numeralsalone. The emblematic cardsmay (instead of having the emblems printed orshown thereon) be i11- dicated solely by color and number, as shown inFig. 2, in which case either the ground or the numeral may be of thecharacteristic color, and the numerals, instead of being in the center,as shown yin Fig.` 2, may be arranged around the border, or numerals maybe used both in the center and on the border.

I make no claim to a round card; nor do I claim, broadly, thecombination of either the heads or the emblems, or of 4theindicatingnumerals in combination with such emblems; but

What I do claim, as a new article of manufacture, is-

l. Playing-cards, each suit of which is indicated by a different color,and provided with numerals to indicate the size or value of the card,and having such numerals, or in lieu thereof, a distinguishing margin orborder, corresponding in color with the suit to which the card belongs,substantially as described and shown, for the purpose set forth.

2. Round playing-cards, each suit whereof is indicated by adistinguisbingcolor, and with numerals to indicate the size or valueofthe cards, substantially as described and shown.

IVORY RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

LEvI C. WADE, J. L. ENGLISH.

